Letters galore! All my animals replied, except Rowan (but then, I did swear in his letter so I’m not surprised). Sadly, they all sent me rubbish – wallpaper I already had and stuff like that. What a waste of time. Finally got round to clearing out my house a bit to make room for the mush furniture. Had to dump a load of gyroids to do so, though.
Really made some progress on this tonight. Completed about 12 or so races, which takes me to just three races away from the bottom right of the map. I’ve unlocked another car (a Pac-Man one), but I don’t want to use it as it’s one of them non-standard drift ones, and I can’t cope with them.
New game on Xbox Live Arcade day! Lumines Live is the XBLA version of the PSP game of the (almost) same name. And I’m rubbish at it. I got 5,500 points on my first go, then managed arounf 100,000 on my second. I’ve gained an achievement for that, and another for getting rid of 30 blocks in 60 seconds on Time Attack mode. Had a go at the 180 seconds one, but didn’t even get near the required 90 blocks. …
Tuesday in Cheese is always Crazy Redd Visits And Tries To Rob You Of Your Money Day. Today, he tried to sell me stuff I already had, so none of my money went to fund his illegal schemes. Not a lot else was going on, but I did find a load of stationary in the lost property, so I wrote abusive messages to my animals. I implied Rowan was gay, told Rodeo (a bull) to eat more beef, suggested that …
Nooooo! Project Gotham has broken it! The handling on Project Gotham is so completely different, that I really struggled to control my Kilik Starnose thingie and it’s wierd drifting mechanism. Try as I might, I just couldn’t complete one of the tracks. So, I changed my plan to do a “loop” on the map into a plan to make my way across the bottom of the map to the right. This meant that I could use my Gaplus car instead, …
Ah, ’tis the end of the Acorn Adventure. The town was strangely quiet on the subject of acorns, as if the whole week just hadn’t happened or something. I still had a few in my pockets, however, and it’s just as well I did as Wendell was about today, and it would probably be the only chance I’d get to give him one. In return, he gave me a design – a ? Block from Mario. Aces. Gladys moved out …
Apparently, Mr Larry Bodine had a bit of trouble with his brand new dual-G5 Power Mac. I’m not surprised, as most of what it supposedly came installed with simply doesn’t exist. His tirade against Apple is somewhat lacking in facts, and he seems unsure as to what actual software he’s running. In one paragraph, he states he’s struggled along with Internet Explorer 5.0, but in another he’s using Tiger’s widgets. The killer is, IE5.0 won’t run on, and doesn’t come …
Now that the new Xbox Vision Camera is out, it seems lots of people are using while playing Uno. I don’t have a camera, but thought I’d log on anyway and see what people are up to. And it seems that everyone is too busy making silly faces, playing with the zoom control, and generally messing around to actually play the game. I managed to play four games, winning one, and quitting out of the rest as the game just …
Aaaaand relax. The Acorn Festival is officially over. Today was the last day to go on an acorn collecting rampage, and my final collection total stands at 178 acorns. Cornimer gave me another bit of mush furniture, but said I needed 22 more acorns for the next one – no chance. I could only manage three, and I decided to save them. In non-acorn news, Gladys the strange bird thing is trying to move out.
Well. I didn’t think that would come about so soon. OK, so most of the trophies I’ve won are bronze, and the rest are silver, but the fact remains I’ve completed all of the Career Mode events. Already. Oh well. It was fun, at least. Some of the later Nurburgring events were a bit of a chore, what with them being so bloody long! One was a race on the entire ‘Ring, which took a good seven minutes or so. …
More acorn “fun” today, racking up my total to about 160 acorns and getting even more furniture in the process. None of my animals had moved out overnight, and for the first time in a while none are trying to move out today either. Went to see K.K. Slider at the museum cafe, and he played me K.K. Western. I must be getting close to having his entire playlist by now, I expect.
A bit more play on this, including some online matches. There weren’t a lot of people online playing, and I didn’t do so well when I raced either, but it was lag-free and pretty good fun anyway. Back offline, and I’m up to Rank 8 now, have a couple of cheap Ferraris, and have about 14 of the trophies won. Most are bronze, one is silver, and one is steel.
Trousers (a guy on my friends list) and I had a go at cracking the get-30,000-points-in-co-op achievement today. It took a few attempts, mainly due to the horrific lag which kept causing problems, but we finally did it with a score of 31,000-ish. Or at least, that’s what we thought. It seems that although we broke the score needed, neither of us actually gained the achievement. Surely we don’t need 30,000 each? That’s plainly impossible in single player anyway, but …
Still on the look out for more achievements, but I think it’s going to be a bit of a long haul for this game. I’ve set about spending all my money on Lamborghinis to get the “one million credits worth of cars” and “Lamborghini owners” achievements. Of course, I did a load of races and other events too. I’ve managed to rack up about 38,000 Kudos points now, and am on tournament 9 or 10-ish.
OK, so I’ve got it all figured out now. Well, not all, but some. I was told that there are some missions in the Linear Line (or something), so went along to there and worked my way through two areas. After that, I found a party to join in a third area, and we made our way through that. It’s quite good fun, but, like what I found with Phantasy Star Online on the Dreamcast, and Blue Burst on the …